A Case Report of Hydatid Cyst of the Parotid in a Two-Year-Old Child

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Mofid Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Hydatid cyst disease may involve all organs of human body, but, the most common sites are liver and lung, and the less common are brain, heart, spleen, bone and parotid. Herein, we report a case of this cyst in the parotid of a two-year-old girl, who was treated medicaly, before surgical intervention in our center.

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